A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, has discovered that strigolactones, a class of novel plant hormones, mediate the fine-tuning of the production ...

If you are involved with alfalfa production, you may recall some springtime discussions and news articles in 2025 about ...

If you manage fields with alfalfa, now is the time to be scouting for alfalfa weevil larvae in northern Indiana. Christian Krupke, Purdue Field Crops Pest Management Specialist, recently said that ...

There are two common insects, namely alfalfa webworm and weevil, to look for in your alfalfa fields. We have been hearing a lot about abundance of alfalfa webworm moth in Colorado this year. Webworms ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...

UW graduate student Micah McClure examines a vial of insects he netted in research plots at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center near Lingle. The insects are ...

Few things can strike fear into the heart of a banana farmer more than finding an infestation of the banana weevil. Females of this coffee bean–sized insect lay their eggs between the plant’s leaves ...

Alfalfa weevil has been an early season pest of the alfalfa forage crop in the panhandle region reducing hay yield and quality. More recently, insecticide regulation and resistance brought new ...

Above: tip feeding on alfalfa by alfalfa weevil larvae. Note the larva curled up in the lower right of the photo. Photo by Purdue University. If you are involved with alfalfa production, you may ...